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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Bum Love | |||
| 2. We're A Happy Family/Bali Ha'i | |||
| 3. Wreck Of The Hesperus | |||
| 4. Green And Pleasant | |||
| 5. Mine Tonight | |||
| 6. My Way | |||
| 7. Rangers In The Night | |||
| 8. Opus | |||
| 9. Body Language | |||
| 10. Andy The Dentist | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 1. Jump Time (Houston) | |||
| 2. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 2. It's Coming (A Fanfare for the Millennium) (Jones) | |||
| 3. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 3. Beacon of Hope (Peeni Wali & Johnson) | |||
| 4. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 4. Chakras (MacKenzie) | |||
| 5. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 5. 2000 Lights (Cornwell) | |||
| 6. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 6. Minute Quartet (Milesi) | |||
| 7. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 7. Atoms and Stars (Jones) | |||
| 8. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 8. One Minute Blackout (Miyazawa) | |||
| 9. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 9. Jodler (Trabitsch) | |||
| 10. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 10. Newgrange Aeon Fragment (Cole) | |||
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I had this on vinyl in 1980 and loved it: - 51 mostly witty tracks, each 60 seconds or less in length, by 51 different artists, some professional musicians, some amateurs (e.g. r d laing the psychiatrist).
Now it's only of curiosity value, and volume two is completely pointless. Without it, I'd have given it five stars for its humorous evocation of a more innocent and experimental musical era.
Now it's only of curiosity value, and volume two is completely pointless. Without it, I'd have given it five stars for its humorous evocation of a more innocent and experimental musical era.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Remarkable compilation
1 Jan 2010
I am STUNNED to see this wonderful obscurity from 1980 available here. For those unfamiliar with it, a gentleman by the name of Morgan-Fisher invited about 50 creative-types (mostly Brits, but a few American artists such as The Residents and 1/2 Japanese make the cut as well) to submit an audio piece for this compilation; the only stipulation was that the piece should be no longer than 60 seconds in length. From the well-known to the virtually unknown, musicians, composers, visual artists, and performance artists turn in such a wide variety of vignettes that it's impossible to categorize the contents except to say that the results are generally interesting, unusual, and often funny. My favorites are George Melly performing an excerpt from Kurt Scwitters "Ur Sonata" and British art-punk band Metabolist doing an amazing (and much too brief) piece entitled "Racing Poodles".
This comp is highly recommended for anyone into avant-garde spoken-word/music expressionism, but I must offer one caveat here: because this is only available via download, you will miss out on the EXTENSIVE liner notes that accompanied the original vinyl release, and in some cases, those notes provided a crucial context for understanding what the artist was doing (such as in the above-mentioned piece by Melly). For this reason, I can only give this a 4-star rating.
This comp is highly recommended for anyone into avant-garde spoken-word/music expressionism, but I must offer one caveat here: because this is only available via download, you will miss out on the EXTENSIVE liner notes that accompanied the original vinyl release, and in some cases, those notes provided a crucial context for understanding what the artist was doing (such as in the above-mentioned piece by Melly). For this reason, I can only give this a 4-star rating.
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